apworld - p1ch7interaction

Interaction between humans and the environment

Theme	How does this theme apply to your civilization?
1. Demography and Disease	The Persian people had a lot of specialized labor. They built roads and high towering structures.
2. Migration	Cyrus grew up in the southern middle east and conquered many cities bringing his people with them When the middle east heated up people migrated to southern asia ad eurasia
3. Patterns of Settlement	The Persians were agricultural people who built large lavish cities along the Tigris and Euphrates river They rarely left there settled places except to go and fight wars and conquer other areas
4. Technology	Large marble columns were erected to hold up tremendously heavy temples Persians were among the first to experiment with that of iron mettalurgy and used it to decimate far lands A long complex road system was erected to carry people and vehicles along an easier path